riflescope in No Country for Old Men

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bubbaturbo

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Near the beginning of the movie, Moss is hunting and while preparing to shoot, he makes an adjustment to the top turret of his scope. I thought that would move the crosshairs and would only be changed at sight-in of the rifle/scope. The movie is set in 1980 if it matters. This is a movie goof right, or was there a scope available in 1980 with a different setup?
 
If you know the DOPE of your rifle/scope/ammo combination you can adjust the elevation/windage for the current conditions of your shot (longer range/windy conditions/etc.) or you can simply holdover/Kentucky windage it.
 
In the book, it mentions that Moss was a former sniper in Vietnam. Therefore, he should have been familiar with making adjustments to a properly zeroed scope as depicted in the film.

IIRC, the rifle was described as a sporterized Mauser, in .270, but it's been awhile.....

Andy
 
Most of your long distance target/sniper style scopes have external adustment turrets. No caps, just knobs. You still zero your rifle for a given distance, often 100 yds but then, if you are taking a shot at 400 yds you know to move the top turret so many clicks to compensate. If the wind is blowing 4mph from the west, you know how many clicks to move the side turret to compensate. After you take your shot you move your adjustments back to zero.
 
This looks like a job for...IMFDB

According to IMFDB, according to the book, it was a Unertl 10x on a sporterized Mauser (as indicated by farmall above). Who knows what the prop scope was, as the props for this move are, for the most part, not period-correct.

-cls
 
Good, link furmious.

While reading the book I assumed it was a custom rifle built with a Mauser action and not a Parker-Hale 1200 as IMFBD guesses. I couldn't tell much about the movie rifle, except it was a Remington, with a more modern looking type scope than I remember 1980.

I also distinctly remember Anton's 11-87 and giving a chuckle. If they would have used an 1100 with a wood stock, or even an 11-87 with a wood stock, it would have been more realistic.

Still, all in all, a good movie.
 
It's been a while since I saw it, but I remember my impression of the rifle was a stainless Ruger, which made it seem out of place for the time.
 
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Looks like I was wrong about stainless, but look at that laminated stock. Were many factory rifles being shipped with laminated stocks back then?
 
According to the novel, the scope was Unertl and rifle was WIN 70 in 270. The charactor used this scope in Viet Nam.

Jack
 
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